Human Books: Social Media, Unplugged

Objectives Purpose: Enable health sciences students and staff to engage in dialogue to challenge common prejudices in a positive manner and to promote empathy for the patients and families they encounter. Methods Setting/Participants: Academic Health Sciences library serving students and staff in an urban hospital and university. The ‘reader’ participants included students, staff, and faculty from the academic medical center. The ‘book’ participants included volunteers from both inside and outside the institution. Results Brief Description: Adapting an international program, The Human Library, the library recruited ‘books’ who had experienced discrimination based on aspects of their lives such as race, sexual orientation, or disability. Two events were held, one in the spring, 2014 and one in the fall, 2014. During the day-long events ‘readers’ borrowed ‘books’ for 1:1 private half-hour conversations. All participants were invited to a concluding reception to discuss their experiences. Library staff monitored the event and gathered evaluations from books and readers. Conclusions Outcome: The spring event hosted 6 books with 20 readers and the fall event had 7 books with 25 readers. The response from all participants was overwhelmingly positive. The institution featured the event in a campus newsletter. Plans are underway for hosting an annual Human Library

Trick or Truth? Accessing Accurate Health Information on the Web

Learning objectives: * Identify 2 locations to access the internet * Identify website resources that can be searched to locate reliable health information * Describe 2 items that can be found on a website to analyze content * Describe the purpose of a Personal Health Recor

The Effect of Required iPads on Library Use

OBJECTIVES Measure the impact on Library use of a new requirement by anaccelerated, one-year nursing program that all students haveiPads loaded with the required texts and determine whether theLibrary should continue offering these books in print. Poster presented at Medical Library Association Annual Conference, Seattle, WA 2012

Public and Community Perceptions of Safe Injection Sites

Background The opioid epidemic began in 1999 and the number of deaths from overdoses has since quadrupled by 2019 50,000 deaths in the US in 2019 from opioid overdoses and the numbers increase each year Research Question: What are the public’s and communities\u27 perceptions of safe injection sites

Ranking Library Tasks for Redesigning a Medical Academic Health Center and University Mobile Web Site

Objectives: (1) To determine what library-related tasks users most want to be able to perform on their mobile devices (smartphones, iPads,etc.), using a modified Likert scale, freetext and multiple choice questions to rank the most common tasks. (2) To redesign our existing Library mobile site

Replacement for the 10 page paper? A pilot project using blogs and wikis for a collaborative EBM assignment in a 3rd year internal medical clerkship

Objective Pilot a group assignment using blogs and wikis to develop evidence-based medicine skills in third year medical students on an internal medicine clerkship. Instead of the clerkship’s previous individual ten-page paper assignment, the students were divided into four groups of sixteen. During the clerkship, students are on geographically dispersed rotations. The earlier ten-page paper had required the students to complete a patient history and physical write-up. With the pilot project, each group was assigned a librarian and a physician faculty mentor. Each student recorded on the blog a clinical scenario and question they encountered. They were encouraged to communicate with the librarian to construct a well formed clinical question. Each student group then came to consensus on which question to pursue and collaborated on a wiki including a list of citations to the best available evidence, a critique of the studies, and implications for the patient

Librarian Support for Graduate Medical Education: 5-Year Check-In

Background The SKMC Office of the Dean through its Graduate Medical Education (GME) Section identified a need for more comprehensive support for GME research efforts. This was intensified as the residency program requirements began to formalize the expectations and quantification of scholarly output for both trainees and core GME faculty.1 In consultation with the Director of the Academic Commons, this GME-focused position was conceptualized to better meet the needs of our residents and faculty, and thus enhance the scholarly projects of our GME constituency. This would build on existing scholarly support2 including professional writing services.3 As part of the Information Services department in Scott Memorial Library, the librarian would provide research consultation and education to over 1000 residents and fellows in more than 100 programs. Initial program objectives were: expanding outreach to more programs, increasing dedicated education sessions and improving program scholarship outcomes. A GME Librarian was hired in July of 2019

Authors, Monitor Your Publications and Their Impact with Scopus and ORCID

Poster presented at 8th annual Faculty Days at Thomas Jefferson University

Invigorate Your Connection to the Literature with these AI-Driven Tools

Objectives Describe how features of the presented tools support various steps in the process of effectively using the scholarly literature Select one or more tools to try out for yourself Practice one or more tools on your favorite piece of literatur

Engaging Students to Improve Research Competencies

By increasingly incorporating a variety of student engagement methods into instruction sessions, librarians will be able to build on basic skills (remembering, understanding, applying) and develop students’ higher order learning skills (analysis, evaluation, and creation). For example, a skill librarians have recently introduced is critical appraisal of the literature, one component that ensures students effectively incorporate evidence-based practice into patient care. Librarians also aim to assess student learning and make appropriate iterative modifications to ensure these methods effectively set up students for success. Together, librarians and faculty are laying the groundwork to facilitate lifelong learning in Jefferson students